Jasmine Thomas-Girvan is an award-winning sculptor, jeweler and installation artist who was born in Jamaica and currently resides in Trinidad. She works with paper, bronze, blown glass and natural materials such as wood and shells to reference ancestral memories, indigenous African cosmologies, postcolonial politics and race relations in the Caribbean and Latin America. Thomas-Girvan graduated from the Parson School of Design in 1984 where she was awarded the Tiffany Honor Award for Excellence. Her work has appeared in major exhibitions in Jamaica, Mexico, Cuba, the Netherlands, Trinidad, Venezuela, the UK and the US and has been recognized with several of awards, including the including the Commonwealth Foundation Arts award in 1996, the 2014 Silver Musgrave Medal of the Institute of Jamaica, and the Aaron Matalon Award of the National Gallery of Jamaica in 2012 and 2017. In this talk, Thomas-Girvan will discuss her most recent work in maroon (indigenous) sculpture as part of her artist residency in Maroon Town, Jamaica.